3R optical regeneration: An all-optical solution with BER improvement

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 6414-6427

  Rochette, Martin ^a   Blows, Justin L ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; POWER CONVERTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

3R OPTICAL REGENERATION; BER IMPROVEMENT; ERROR RATIO IMPROVEMENT; SPECTRAL SHIFT;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745841371     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006414     Document Type: Article

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